Long pass

The answer

BOMB

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BOMB answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for BOMB

Every other clue in this collection answered by BOMB, most used first.

• Broadway flop - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Box-office flop - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Flop - used 14 times, most recently in 2012
• Fail miserably - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Explosive device - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Big flop - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Box office disaster - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Fall flat - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Lay an egg - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Box office failure - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Flop on Broadway - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Flop on stage - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• Fiasco - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Turkey - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Unsuccessful film - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Long story - SAGA, used 247 times
• It's a long story - SAGA, used 161 times
• A long time - AGES, used 156 times
• Before long - SOON, used 120 times
• Long skirt - MAXI, used 117 times
• "So long!" - TATA, used 114 times

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